San Bernardino Investigation

Author

Tony Shen

Introduction

This is a exploratory memo detailing investigating the available and public data regarding San Bernardino County, to aide in FHEO’s investigation. Warehouse information for the county comes from Radical Research/Pitzer College’s WarehouseCITY Project.

County Warehouse Visualization

The following visualization is an interactive map highlighting San Bernardino County, its incorporated and census designated places, and the warehouses within them. The user is able to zoom in on any geography to view the number and sizes of warehouses in each jurisdiction. Bloomington CDP can be found towards the bottom left of the county, among the peripheral cluster surrounding San Bernardino City. It is a relatively small place which also borders Riverside County.

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Exploratory Statistics

This Summary Statistics datatable is available through the WarehouseCITY shinyapp. It includes fields that are not available for download. Filtering by San Bernardino County, there are a total of 2774 warehouses built by 2025. The total acreage is roughly 30k and total floor space around 723.5million sq. ft. Table is scrollable horizontally.

Warehouse Breakdown

The table below breaks down the number of warehouses within each class/category, limited to the top 10 types and sorted in descending order. The most common class of warehouse is ‘distribution’ and the least is ‘hangar’.

Places by count of warehouses:
The table below shows the places (CDP and incorporated place) on the left column and the total number of warehouses on the right. You are able to scroll, search, and sort by columns. Bloomington CDP is 15th and has a total of 22 warehouses. The mean number of warehouses is ~82.44 and the median is 18.

Places by total square footage of warehouses:
The table below shows the places, total square footage of the warehouses, and the warehouse area as a proportion of the total land area. In terms of total warehouse square footage Bloomington CDP is 14th and has a total square footage of 19,532,200. The mean total square footage is 40,383,053 and median is 4,838,450.

In terms of which localities are receiving the most total warehouse square footage relative to their land mass, Bloomington ranks 5th of 33 places with warehouses at ~11.54%. The mean proportion is ~3.97% and the median is ~1.64%.

Places by Total Population and Population Density:
All population and demographic data comes from the 2022 five-year American Community Survey (table: B03002). In terms of population density, Bloomington ranks 6th out of 33 places with warehouses in San Bernardino County. Population density is calculated:
population_density = total population / total_area_km2
The mean people per square kilometer is 826.7122 and the median is 701.3556.

Bloomington CDP Deep Dive

Bloomington CDP has a very large Hispanic population. According to the ACS5 2022 survey, roughly 87.6% of denizens identified as Hispanic or Latino. For context, there are 70 cities/cdps with populations 70% and above that are Hispanic, and only 3 that are above 80%. Bloomington is the city/cdp with the second highest Hispanic or Latino population in the county. The mean Hispanic proportion is 41.19% and the median is 36.49% for the county.